Improved scaffold-bracket



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r EDWARD W. MIXER, 0F SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 95,815, (lated October 12, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

f To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NOAH LovELL, of the city of Adrian, in the county of Lenawee, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Scabld-Bmcketsy and I do hereby declare that the f following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the saine, which will enable others skilled in the art'to make and use my invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,niaking a part of this specification, like letters referring to like parts..

The nature of my invention consists inthe novel construction of a safe, cheap, and durable bracket for supporting the scatfolds for builders to stand upon while at work about a building, and is intended to be of equal utility for wood, stone, or brick buildings.

In the drawings- 1 Figure l is a perspective view of Vmy improved d bracket, representing it in two forms, one of them showing the construction and mode of attaching it to a stud or post of a i'ame building; the other is but a modified form of the same, to be used about brick or stone buildings.

Figures 2 and 3 show side views, and

Figures 4 and 5, the upper edge of each form of bracket.

A- represents one form of bracket, and the mode of fastening it to a post or stud, P.

m represents a strap of iron, bolted to thebracket -A'at one end, and, at the other end, having a toothed side, the lower end of the strap being slightly bent, and toothed, so as to be the more easily driven into the stud'P, and afford a iirr foothold to the brace b against the stud. l

In this way, the bracket is supported at a right anr gle with the stud, and thereulreld firmly, when it may be s urmounted with the scafbld-plank.

And it may, by unscrewing the screw T, and removing the wedge IV and brace b, be raised or lowered at pleasure, as the work progresses.

The hook, on the upperend of the strap l', is for the convenience of driving the lower end into-the stud P, as shown at k. y

The bracket B, as before stated, is but a. modified forni of the one just described, and is to be used only about brick or storie buildings, and the difference between the two brackets consists in the strap n, figs. 3 and 5, passing through the wall and large wooden washer j, and secured there by the nut V, instead of the clasp g, as shown on the strap m.

The bracket B is represented in the drawings as attached to a portion of a brick wall, S, and is the same as used about stone walls.

The lower end of the strap l, of the brace c, is driven Witnesses G. W. BARKER, S. B. BARKER. 

